Authio Lobby vs Descope

Authio Lobby provides passwordless sign-in for apps through a hosted interface, SDKs, session features, and widgets for customer IT admins. Sign-in methods include passkeys, magic links, social login, and enterprise SSO using SAML 2.0, OIDC, and SCIM 2.0. The hosted interface can use a custom domain, organization-specific branding, and project-specific email templates. SDKs are listed for Next.js, React, Vue, and Node, with session helpers and edge-runtime JWT verification. Session tools include silent refresh, secure cookie helpers, route gating, and switching organizations within a session. Embeddable widgets let customer admins configure SSO, directory sync, and domain verification within a product. The free Developer tier is for projects under 10,000 MAUs and excludes SSO, SCIM, and Locate. Starter costs $129 a month and Pro costs $449 a month; Enterprise pricing is custom. Authio says GDPR and CCPA compliance is in place and describes its SOC 2 posture as pre-audit readiness, with Type I targeted for 2027-Q1.

Descope is a customer and agentic identity platform for authentication, user management, authorization and identity journeys. Developers can use Descope Flows to build login screens and authentication journeys visually, without writing code. Authentication options include magic links, passkeys, social login, one-time passwords, SSO, biometrics, MFA, authenticator apps and passwords. The platform provides client, mobile and backend SDKs, plus REST APIs for custom implementations; Descope says its SDKs are open source. Listed framework and language integrations include React, Next.js, Vue.js, JavaScript, Angular, Python, Node.js, Java,.NET, Go, PHP, Ruby, Kotlin, Swift, React Native and Flutter. Native mobile SDKs support Swift iOS, Kotlin Android, Flutter and React Native apps. Descope documents more than 50 third-party connectors for CRM, identity verification, fraud prevention and audit use cases. The Free Forever plan costs nothing and includes 7,500 MAUs, 10 monthly active tenants and 3 SSO connections. Pro costs $249 a month, billed annually; Growth costs $799 a month, billed annually.